Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1871 — Weekly News Summary. [ARTICLE]

Weekly News Summary.

CONGRESSIONAL. In the open session of the Senate, on tho loth, denials wore made on the part of several Sonators Uiat they had any knowledge as to how or by whom tho treaty had been divulged, aud members of the Investigating Committee staled that no evidence had boon adduced before the commlttco Implicating, directly or Indirectly, any Senator in the transacUon by which a copy of the treaty had been made public.... The Senate went Into evocative session on the treaty and allerwarda adjourned. The question as to the premature publication of the treaty was farther considered la the Senate on the 20th, and several personal explanations were made. In reply to the question as to whether what the N. Y. Tribune published was the same as the official copy of the treaty, Mr. Morton said It was, with the exception of one of the articles omitted by mistake.... The treaty was considered In executive session... .Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 22d, several personal explanations were mado, Senators denying that they had made speeches lu executive session such as was attributed to them in wbat purported to be tbe published proceedings of the Sonate as reported In tho dally newspapers.... Resolutions were offered—one that tHe Seai£cant-at-Arms be directed to discharge White and Kamsdell immediately after the final adjournment of the special pcssiou of-the Senate, and the other that they be discharged from custody forthwith—both of which resolutions went over... .A resolution was adopted that the clerks of the several standing committees he paid from May Ito May 51.... A report was made from the Judiciary Committee to the effect that Senators are not, under the law, entitled to mileage for attending the present extrn session. .... The treaty was further considered in Executive session.... Adjourned. In tho Senate, on the 23d, a letter was read from Vice-President Colfax, saying he did not expect to preside over the Senate during the rest of the session, and Mr. Anthony was chosen President pro tnii..,\A motion to go Into executive session was m&ddaud carried, and the treaty was further considered. In the Benate, on the 24th, a memorial was presented and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, from Flanagan, Bradley, Carke & Co.; John J. Flanagan; Henry Woodruff, for himself, and as Trustee for Conrtlsnd Palmer; John M. Donaldson, Trustee, and Poultncy National Bank, by Henry Woodruff, attorney, stating that they had Jnst claims to the amount of over *•■150,000 against the Government of Venezuela, for losses occasioned by Its failure to perform its obll gations and duties, under certain grants relating to tbe construction of a railroad east from Caracas to Potare, and its wrongful and arbitrary acts in seizing, by military force, materials, tools, and equipments connected with tho construction of the road, etc The treaty was further considered and debated in executive session, and it was finally ratified by a vote of 50 to U .. Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 25th, Mr Sumner, In a personal explanation, denied a report in the Daily Chronicle purporting to give a statement of remarks made by him in executive session on the K4th, which report he pronounced a fabrication.... After an executive session, tho committee appointed to Investigate the question of the divulging of the treaty made a report, submittlngall the testimony, and stating that Charles A. Tinker, Manager of the Western Union Telegraph Office, and J. A. Kirby, an operator of that office, are in contempt of the Senate for refusing to answer certain questions propounded them. A motion was made and adopted—B4 to 11 —to lay tbe report on the table, the object being to turn Tinker and Kirby over to the court under the law, and discharge White and Ramsdcll from custody, that their case might take the same direction. The moUon to discharge White and Ramsdell was then proceeded with, but subsequently withdrawn, and a substitute was offered to the effect that the witnesses having testifleff that no Senator or employe of the Senate having been connected with the publicaUon, the committee be discharged and the witnesses released, when, after some further discussion, the Senate adjourned.

FOREIGN. Cable dispatches of the 21st announce that the Versailles forces had entered Paris late iu the afternoon of that day, at two points, the gate of St. Cloud, near Point du Joftr, and the gate of Montrouge, on the Boulevard Brune. The insurgents had abandoned the ramparts. There was said to be a panic in the city, and many of the insurgent leaders had disappeared. Rochefort had been arrested in attempting to escape from the Commune, aud was taken to Versailles on the 20th. The Legislature of New Brunswick has adopted,by unanimous votes inboth branches, resolutions condemnatory of the terms of the Treaty of Washington, in s b far as they affect the interests of Canada. After the passage of these resolutions, tlic Legislature was prorogued. Buenos Ayres dates to March 8 report 240 to 261 deaths daily by yellow fever, which showed no prospect of abatement. The authorities seem helpless to deal with the scourge, which would not probably cease before winter. A Paris dispatch of the afternoon of the 22d says: “ All *s over. Seventy thousand Versaillists have entered the city, and more arc now coming. They marched in all night, coming through six gates, and met with but slight resistance." Other accounts state that the city was in great commotion, and that severe fighting had occurred, but that the collapse of the Commune was imminent.

In the Assembly, at Versailles, on the ‘23d, M. Thiers made a congratulatory speech on the surprising success of the government forces. A vote of thanks to Thiers and the army was adopted by acclamation. Earthquake shocks were felt at Toronto, Quebec, Ottawa and other places in Canada, on the morning of the 21st. Bradford, Ont., was nearly destroyed by fire on the 22<L Over sixty families were rendered homeless, and there was not a store left to supply the sufferers with provisions. Loss variously estimated'at from $500,000 to $1,000,000. The news from Paris on the 24th is to the effect that the city had been fired by the insurgents, and was biirning in many places. The Communists still held all the district between the Place Vendome, Tuileries, and Belleville. Troops were mowed down by fire from windows, barricades by mitrailleuses, but steadily gain ground. The slaughter was awful. The Tuileries were entirely burned> An explosion had occurred in the center of the city, and it was considered probable that the Hotel de Ville had been blown up by the insurgents. In the Assembly at Versailles Thiers expressed his horror at these acta of vandalism, and declared that it was the determination of the government ,to punish the perpetrator# without mercy. The official result of the census of London, just pubiishe J, shows a total population of a little more than 3,250,000. The London Tmc* of the 24th expresses the opinion that the settlement of the question of the is honorable to England, ai.d that the object of both England and America is realized. Though the treaty represents no perfect

compromise, it is still acceptable for the sake of paoce, and' bdth countries have already practically ratified the result of the labors of tho commission. The German Reichstag has approved a supplementary clause to the postal treaty between America and Germany, under which letters will henceforward be forwarded to and from America at the rate of2}£ groschen (about 5 centa) per ounce. Berlin journals of May 21, state that General Fabriee had demanded of the Paris Commune the surrender of the National Guards implicated In afi attack upon the hotel of Mr. Washbume, the American Minister. Grousset replied that the Commune had ordered that the embassy be held sacred, and that when they heard that the est iblishment had been attacked they ordered a court-martial of the offenders. The culprits fled, i u dismay, and could not be found. The Commune could, therefore,! only express sorrow and indignation at the occurrence of a deed which they were unable to prevent, j Thiers, in a circular issued on the 25th, says: “We are masters of Paris except a small portion which will be occupied today. Tho Louvre has been saved. The hotel of the Minister of Finance has been partially burned, and the Tuileries and Palais du Quai d’Orsay, in which the Council of State holds their sessions, are wholly destroyed. We have already 12,000 prisoners, and shall have 20,000 tonight The streets of Paris are strewn with insurgent corpses. Our loss is small. The army has behaved admirably. Justice will soon be satisfied, and France be happy in the midst of her own misfortunes.” A dispatch from St. Denis on the evening of the 25th says: “ Fighting in Paris, has ceased. The VersaiUists have complete possession of the city. The conflagrations are nearly all of them extinguished. They, in all cases, were caused by the shells of the Versaillists and not by the Communists. A portion of the Louvre was saved; the most precious works arc safe in the vaults. Last night and to-day the troops refused to give quarter, and killed all who fell into their hands.”

DOMESTIC. Gold closed in New York on the 25th at HIMA War Department order was issued on the 18th, containing the President’s instructions to officers in command of troops, directing them how to act under the provisions of the Ku-Klux act. A fearful uitro-glycerine explosion occurred about five miles from Titusville, Pa., on the 19th. About four hundred pounds of the -compound were exploded while being transported in a wagon, and the driver, Chas. C- Clark, as well as the horses and vehicle, was blown to atoms, and a barn forty rods distant was demolished. Au excavation five feet deep and twelve feet broad was made in the roadway. The largest fragment of Clark’s body which had been found is a portion of his face. The horses’ shoes were stripped off and broken, and nothing was left of* the wagon, but splinters of wood and iron were scattered broadcast for several hundred yards. A woman was knocked down by a missile of some kind, which entered the window of her dwelling, nearly a quarter of a mile distant. The Congressional Ku-Klux Committee on the 19th adopted a resolution for the appointment of a sub-committee of eight, to proceed at once with the investigation, and continue the same as long as it deems expedient, with authority to take testimony whenever they consider it advisable, by a sub committee of its own members, and to report all testimony by it obtained to the full committee, at a meeting to be held on the 20th day of September next, or at such earlier time as the subcommittee shall notify the joint select committee to meet. The following are the names of the sub-committee: Senator Scott, Chairman; Senators Poole and Blair; Representatives Poland, Coburn, Stevenson, Beck and Van Trump. The first spike on the Pacific side of the Northern Pacific Railroad was driven at Kalama, Oregon, on the 18th, with appropriate ceremonies. A violent tornado and hail storm passed over a belt of land one mile wide in New Kent County, Va., on the 19th. Trees and houses were blown down, and persons in the road were knocked senseless by the hail stones. Hail was found in some places nine inches deep. Much damage was done to crops. A Scranton, Pa., dispatch of the 22d says: “ The whirr of machinery is heard this morning, for the first time for many months; in all the breakers at the shafts by the great coal companies in this valley. Everything is bustling, active and cheerful throughout the community, and the general disposition is to beiieve that we have at least five years of constant work before us, without interruption from strikes, and that all dissensions and sufferings are to be buried iu peace and plenty.” The tug B. B. Jones exploded her boiler at Port Huron on the 25th, killing the following named persons: Andrew Rathbonc, mate; Thomas Blanchard, first engineer; Patrick McGuire and. Delbert Preston, wheelsmen, and Charles Miller, fireman. '

PERSONAL. In Chicago, on the 19th, the White Stockings, of that city, defeated theOlympics, of jWashington/in a game of base ball—r 9 to 7. Horace Greeley arrived at Galveston, Texas, on this morning of the 19th. lie was formally received by the Mayor and City Council. In a game of base ball at Boston on the 20th, the Red Stockings, of that city, defeated the Athletics, of Philadelphia—ll to 8. At Cleveland, the Olympics, of

Washington, defeated the Cleveland Forest Citys—l3 to 9. At Chicago, on the 22d, the White Stockings, of that city, defeated the Rockford Forest Citys—ls to 0. During the proceedings in the Senate on the 22d, and near the close of the day’s session, Vice-President Colfax was taken suddenly ill, and on his attempting to leave his seat became dizzy, and but for assistance wonld have fallen to the floor. He was conveyed to his room, when medical aid was promptly summoned, and the proper remedies were applied, giving much relief. His sickness was probably caused by the close atmosphere in the Senate chamber, as all the doors are closed during the executive sessions. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate on the 22d: Postmasters—A. P. Sullivan, Santa Fe, N. M.; 8. W. Chubbuck, Gold Hill, Nev.; Mark Tilton, Pension Agent, Mattison, Ind. Among the nominations by the President on the 23d were: John W. Fuller, Collector pf Internal Revenue Tenth Dis trict of Ohio. Postmasters —B. W. Davies, Richmond, Ind.; J. T. Griffin, Omaha, Neb. The condition of Vice-President Colfax was reported by his physician to be much better on the evening of the 23d, and he was said to be out of all danger, though so weak that he could not probably be removed from the Capitol for several days. Bishop Davis W. Clark 1 , of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died in Cincinnati on the evening of the 23d. Alfred Zeigenmcyer, arrested in Germany for the murder of William M. Gumbleton, at Chicago, last winter, arrived in that city on the 28d, in custody of the officers who were sent after him. Major Powell and his party left Greene River, Utah, on the morning of the 23d. They will be absent two years exploring the canons of the Colorado and some of its tributaries.

At Cleveland, on the 24th, the Forest Citys, of that city, defeated the Rockford Forest Citys in a game of base-ball—ll to 10. The Boston Red Stockings and the Washington Olympics played a game in Boston on the 24th, which resulted in a tie on the ninth inning—4 to 4. A Binghamton letter says Runoff’s grave had been opened three times in the hope of getting his head, which had been taken off before burial. His brain weighed ten ounces above the average, and his skull was the thickest on record. The arguments were concluded in the Foster murder trial in New York City, on the 24th, and the case was submitted to the jury. The International Convention of Young Men’s Christian Associations commenced its session in Washington on the 24th. The officers chosen are: President, John Wanimakcr, of Philadelphia; Vice-Presi-dents, R. R. Mcßurney, New York; J. Skinner, North Carolina; W. Brooks,California; R. H. Brown, Louisiana; L. Claxton, Quebec; W. S. Crosby, Michigan; 8. H. Kendrick, Rhode Island; M. K. Barnard, Indiana; C. Lloyd, Washington, D. C.; C. B. Fiih, Missouri; C. P. Palmer, Prince Edward’s Island; W. B. Simpson, Wost Virginia. Secretaries, T. H. R. Enos, Indiana; W. H. llobbß, Maine; H. J.Cowles, Wisconsin. > The President, on the 24th, nominated Leandcr Gerreard as Attorney for the District of Nebraska; W. P. Wolf, Postmaster at Wilmington, Ohio. The corner-stone of a monument to the Confederate dead at Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond, Va., waa laid on the afternoon of the 24th. The Grand Lodge of Good Templars of North America recently in session at Baltimore, elected the following officers for the ensuing year: R. W. G. Templar, Rev. T. Russell, of Michigan; R. W. G. Councillor, J. J. Hickman, of Kentucky; R. W. G. Templar, Sister Anna Raymond, of New York; R. W. G. Secretary, Julius A. Spencer, of Cleveland, 0., and R. W. G. Treasurer, John Campbell, of St. Louis. ‘ The jury in the Foster murder case in New York city, on the 25th, returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree, with a recommendation to mercy.

POLITICAL. In the Massachusetts Senate on the 23d an order of inquiry into the treaty of Washington on the Massachusetts fishing interest was tabled. The New Hampshire Governor and Council, in session May 23, examined the vote for Senators. They found no choice in Districts 1 and 10. Five Republicans and five Democrats were found to be elected, and notified accordingly. *Tho Peunsylvknia Democratic State Convention met at Harrisburg on the 24th. The following nominations were made: Auditor General, General Wm. McCandless, of Philadelphia; Surveyor General, Captain J. M. Cooper, of Lawrence County. William A. Wallace was elected Chairman of the State Central Committee. Tho Wisconsin State Temperencc Convention has been called to meet, at Watertown on the 6th of June, to nominate candidates for State officers. The Illinois Legislature met in special session at Springfield on the 24th. The Chicago Tribune’s Washington special of the 25th gives the following as the yea and nay vote in the Senate on the ratification of the treaty of Washington .- / Yetu.—Ames, Anthony, Bayard, Buckingham, Moreman, Caldwell, Cameron, Chandler. Clayton, ICole, Conkllng, Cragtn, Edmund*, Ferry (Mich V, * Fenton, Flanagan, FrelipKhuyeen, Gilbert, Hamilton (Texae), Hamilton (Md.i, Hamlin, H«rlan, Hill, Hitchcock, Kellogg, Lewi*, I-ogan, Morrill (Me.), Morton. Nye, Oiborn, Pattenon, Pomeroy, Pool, Pratt, Ramey, itlce, Koberteoß, »l>enc*r, Stewart, Sumner, 11pt““. Trumbull, V) ll»on, Yi In.dom, Wright—'o. Now.—Caraerly, Carpenter, Davl* (Ky ), Davl* (W. Va.), Kelly, Baulebury, Stevenson, Stockton, Sprague, Thurman, Vlcfcera, Went—lS Blair was paired with Morrill, of Vermont. Those absent or not voting were Cooper, Corbett, Howe, Jobtjjton and Brownlow.